Senior Software Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type
On-site
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Salary
$175,000–$280,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $137,500–$197,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $228k versus about $168k for comparable roles.

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About SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

SpaceX currently has 853 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $125,000–$165,000 across 579 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

The Sr. Software Engineer (Starlink Enterprise) joins the Starlink Enterprise Software team to build interfaces and systems for large-scale customers across sectors like emergency response, education, and transportation. You will develop tools to manage thousands of global devices, design core backend systems to serve data, and create internal interfaces for sales and operations teams. This role requires working across the full stack, including UI/UX design, distributed systems engineering, and embedded software. You must engineer performant software using object-oriented languages, Javascript or Typescript frameworks, and relational databases. The position involves solving complex problems related to providing reliable broadband internet from a satellite constellation. Key competencies include version control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and experience with UNIX-like operating systems to deliver high-performance applications for diverse global users.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1156 postings across 72 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Engineer well-architected, responsive, and reliable software for Starlink customers and internal users.
  • Build excellent frontends for modern web browsers.
  • Design, build, maintain, and debug complex backend systems.
  • Develop tools to manage thousands of Starlink devices globally.
  • Create core backend systems to serve data for large-scale enterprise customers.
  • Build internal interfaces used by sales and operations teams.
  • Perform deep dives into user problems to create efficient technical solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline and 5+ years of experience building full-stack software.
  • 7+ years of professional experience building full-stack software in lieu of a degree.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.
  • Programming experience in an object-oriented language (preferred).
  • Front-end experience in a Javascript or Typescript framework (preferred).
  • Experience working with relational databases (preferred).
  • Experience with version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts (preferred).
  • Experience with large-scale and/or performance-critical application development (preferred).

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